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Skills for Successful Relationships®



Purpose Built Families Foundation is a nationally accredited nonprofit delivering preventative and reparative services to overcome foundational barriers to the quest for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” 


Reparative services are delivered through (1) the agency’s Operation Sacred Trust  (“OST”) collaboration disrupting and ending homelessness for thousands of Veterans and (2) Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills (“PAIRS”) classes offered nationwide under the “PAIRS Essentials” and “Warrior to Soul Mate” brands helping couples overcome marital instability. 


Preventive services are delivered to youth and adults - empowering interpersonal relationship competence through a triad of practical, usable skills to improve communication, conflict resolution, emotional understanding and connection.

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The Goal is Bonding

Purpose Built Families Foundation’s approach is built on fundamental skills and concepts underscored throughout the Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills program, widely known as PAIRS.

People who master the art of war, medicine, law, science, business, and many other noteworthy endeavors typically draw on those same competencies for different missions in life -- because that’s what they know. 

Over the past half century, fewer and fewer Americans have grown up in families that provided a model for the lives we seek for ourselves and those we love. How would we know how to nurture a stable, healthy relationship between peers, successfully parent children, or sustain feelings of love through life’s natural challenges and transitions if we’ve never seen that happen?

Rarely are the issues that lead to family fragmentation about core values or differences. More often, decisions that have painful, generational consequences for self and loved ones are rooted in an awkward truth: we don’t know what we don’t know.

Seth Eisenberg is the president and CEO of the Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills (PAIRS) Foundation, and the developer of the PAIRS Yodi app, which provides cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) tools through an AI-powered platform.



"I've had the privilege of witnessing how ChatGPT technology can support mental health on a global scale," Eisenberg said. "With more than 200,000 people from 175 different countries and territories downloading the Yodi app, it's clear that there is a significant demand for accessible and immediate emotional support tools."


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Stonewalling can also manifest in the form of one-word answers, non-committal grunts, and non-verbal cues like crossing their arms, stiffening their body, averting their eyes, or turning their back. It usually happens during an argument or after an intense talk, but it can also occur for no apparent reason at all. Either way, “the partner may simply stop talking for extended periods, creating a painful silence that feels like a wall between you,” says Seth Eisenberg of PAIRS Foundation, a non-profit that focuses on improving relationships.

Intimate relationship skills training offers practical, usable tools for pairing, partnering, and parenting built on the triad of vital interpersonal competencies: communication, conflict resolution, emotional understanding and connection.

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